Top rated Historical place museums in Cañon City, United States to elevate your visit (Updated April, 2024)

Top rated Historical place museums in Cañon City

Experience the best that Cañon City has to offer with our curated list of top-rated places. Sorted by average review scores from venues boasting over 30 reviews, these establishments promise exceptional quality and experiences to elevate your visit in the city. This list contains 14 places from Historical place museum category.

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Pioneer Village Museum

Museum

4.90 (36 reviews) (~196.38 km from centre)

Phoenix Gold Mine

Tourist attraction

👍👍 A truly unique, family-owned mine. We had the pleasure of getting one of the owners give us a tour. He was so sweet and extremely knowledgeable about not just mining and it’s history, but also scientific processes, chemistry, and more. It was so incredible to get a tour from a miner himself. Truly a...

4.80 (520 reviews) (~148.27 km from centre)

Museum of the Mountain West

Historical place museum

👍👍 This was a spur of the moment stop along our road trip. We circled back to see what this place was about and were just in time to join the next tour group. Everyone that worked there just seemed really amazingly friendly. Our tour guide was very knowledgeable and thorough! The tour ended up being ab...

4.80 (456 reviews) (~225.64 km from centre)

1879 Avery House

History museum

👍👍 Beautiful house and the tour is full of awesome FoCo history and great stories!

4.80 (78 reviews) (~238.82 km from centre)

Fort Garland Museum & Cultural Center

Museum

👍👍 This cultural center has lots of reading material and intriguing stories portrayed through well maintained displays. We learned about how this military fort was strategically placed in the borderlands and was designed to coerce Indian tribes onto reservations. It’s also rich in the history of unders...

4.70 (330 reviews) (~114.72 km from centre)

Taos Art Museum at Fechin House

Art museum

Former abode of Russian artist Nicolai Fechin, now home to works from the Taos Society of Artists.

4.70 (248 reviews) (~228.01 km from centre)

Historic Elitch Theater

Event venue

Renovated 1891 theater devoted to production & study of performing arts that also has movie nights.

4.70 (70 reviews) (~148.21 km from centre)

South Platte Valley Historical Society

Historical place museum

👍👍 Ft. Lupton is a hidden gem in Ft. Lupton, Colorado. It is run by volunteers and offers a wonderful historic trip back to the mid-1800's. Google "special event dates and visiting dates/times" because you just missed the Trapper Days Rendezvous. It had many authentic trapper vendors set up, a black po...

4.70 (58 reviews) (~187.39 km from centre)

Molly Brown House Museum

Historical place museum

Titanic survivor "unsinkable" Molly Brown's 1889 mansion houses Victorian-era furnishings & art.

4.60 (2.3K reviews) (~145.52 km from centre)

Pioneer Town Museum

Historical place museum

👍👍 I would love to come back and see this place again while its open. Just to know the real history would be so interesting. If anyone is home schooling their young children this will be a great history lesson.

4.60 (192 reviews) (~240.1 km from centre)

Steelworks Center of the West

Historical place museum

Museum featuring exhibits on the history of mining, steel production, industrialization & more.

4.60 (152 reviews) (~57.86 km from centre)

Cozens Ranch Museum

History museum

👍👍 I was pleasantly surprised at the history found inside this little museum. The Cozens pronounced cousins were a way stop on the stagecoach road. What was more interesting are the exhibits in the second floor. Dr Susan Anderson was one of the first female doctors in the west. Dr Quinn medicine Woman...

4.60 (76 reviews) (~172.79 km from centre)

The Martin G. Lockley Discovery Center at Dino Ridge

Museum

👍👍 It's amazing seeing dinosaur fossils still in the rock! A must visit

4.50 (699 reviews) (~137.64 km from centre)

Fort Vasquez

Museum

😐 The museum was gutted and replaced with stuff focusing on nearby towns. All that is left is the old Fort itself to see. So sad. It is crumbling and falling apart due to it's design and lack of maintenance.

4.40 (126 reviews) (~197.85 km from centre)

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Top rated Historical place museums in Cañon City, United States